Check Sex Offender Registry Before Trick or Treating

(Undated) — Illinois Attorney General, Kwame Raoul, is reminding parents and guardians to check the state’s sex offender registry before Trick or Treating. Illinois law bans all sex offenders who committed a crime against a child from distributing candy and participating in trick-or-treating or other Halloween events involving children. There are currently more than thirty-three thousand registered sex offenders listed on the Illinois Sex Offender Registry and more than twenty-five thousand of those committed a crime against a child. According to the registry, there are seventy-four registered sex offenders in Crawford County.